that's a good deal of it too, probably. The books are so heavy-handed, I think it's hard for me to enjoy them almost at all, whereas the movies, like you said, do treat it a lot more realistically, what with issues and everything.

That does make sense. And different people gravitate to the different forms of the text because of their beliefs about the story. I think a lot of it is informed by worldview as well. I know several of the major people in the much more book-based fandom, and many of them are Christians, whereas I think most of the people I know in the movie-based/Lewis-criticizing fandom have a really wide range of religion/nonreligion. Backgrounds inform our view a lot too.

I guess it's a mix of things. :P